Hey, I sold my first painting as an adult artist yesterday! Was the bird in the brush you commented on Don. It is very encouraging to me. Am so sorry my fist art teacher is not here to share it with me, she would have been so proud!

we use a game in teaching where you have to make a story starting with one of the odd couples and develop the story logically to reach the finale with the other of the couple...i'm already thinking up a story of this wonderful rendition Don:)

Metaphorically for me, the blow dryer unlocked the chains of the large rollers I used to use to straighten my ultra tight curls when I was younger...lol. That and a big round brush. Really though, I'm always amazed at your work Don. Your paintings are so eye catching. Are you by chance coming up for the Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts this year? We had so many artists sign up this year that the entry pieces were limited to two per person. My entries are posted on my blog. The medium of choice is photography which will be something to see. Sheryl

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I still feel like a beginner, even after a lifetime of painting. That’s the wonderful thing about art-making—each blank canvas offers the opportunity to rebuild your world anew. How many job descriptions offer that?

I grew up in rural northeast Oregon and started drawing and painting when very young. I’ve painted large murals all over the country, illustrated books, taught workshops and exhibited in galleries and museums. My art has traveled down two seemingly disparate but parallel paths: one more traditionally realist and the other more abstract. Sometimes they overlap.

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Welcome to my daily painting blog.
Here's the deal: most everyday I trek out into the wilds of the woods, or maybe the wilds of my studio to complete a new small painting, usually oil on gessoed hardboard, 5 x 7 or 6 x 6 inches in size. Then I take a picture of it, close my eyes, cross my fingers and push the button that posts it on this blog, floating out into the virtual world.

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